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Tidbits on February 28, 2017
Bob Jensen
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Set 8 of Snow Pictures Taken
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---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations
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http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm
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http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: An Animated Introduction to
the Most Insightful Study of American Democracy ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/an-animated-introduction-to-tocqueville.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
YouTube: Math Mornings at Yale ---
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqHnHG5X2PXBVZsf_rvAwGnUgZ-mGdqCy
W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem “When You Are Old” Gets Adapted Into a Beautiful
Short Film ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/w-b-yeats-classic-poem-when-you-are-old-gets-adapted-into-a-beautiful-short-film.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Free music downloads ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Bach's Most Famous Organ Piece Played on Wine Glasses ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/bachs-most-famous-organ-piece-played-on-wine-glasses.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
Mandoberlin: Lesson Hub ---
http://www.mandoberlin.com/lesson-hub.php
Web outfits like
Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content
that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2
Pandora (my favorite online music station) ---
www.pandora.com
TheRadio (online music site) ---
http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) ---
http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this
international radio site ---
http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:
Search for a song or band and play the selection ---
http://songza.com/
Also try Jango ---
http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) ---
http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live ---
http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note U.S. Army Band recordings
---
http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp
Bob Jensen's threads on nearly all types of free
music selections online ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm
Photographs and Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Connections ---
http://www.metmuseum.org/connections
Bob Jensen's threads on art history ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#ArtHistory
Sierra Club: The John Muir Exhibit: Educational Resources ---
http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/educational_resources
Famous Trees of Texas ---
http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/websites/FamousTreesOfTexas
Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various
types electronic literature available free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on libraries ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#---Libraries
Melville Society ---
http://melvillesociety.org
Shakespeare and the Players ---
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare
JSTOR Daily: Black History Month: Editor's Picks ---
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks
America's Public Bible ---
http://americaspublicbible.org
Treasures of the McDonald Collection (rare books and book covers) ---
http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/mcdonald
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection ---
https://www.loc.gov/collections/feinberg-whitman/about-this-collection
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E.
Feinberg Collection ---
https://www.loc.gov/collections/feinberg-whitman/about-this-collection
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Now in
Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on February 28, 2017
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2017/TidbitsQuotations022817.htm
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the booked
obligation of $19+ trillion) ---
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/politicalcalculations/2016/05/25/spring-2016-to-whom-does-the-us-government-owe-money-n2168161?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
The US Debt Clock in Real Time ---
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Remember the Jane Fonda Movie called "Rollover" ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(film)
To Whom Does the USA Federal Government Owe Money (the
unbooked obligation of $100 trillion and unknown more in contracted
entitlements) ---
http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/15/news/economy/entitlement-benefits/
The biggest worry of the entitlements obligations is enormous obligation for the
future under the Medicare and Medicaid programs that are now deemed totally
unsustainable ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget.
Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all
American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics
like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s
because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re
the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to
think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem,
someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it and we’ll have absolutely
zero chance...
Steve Tobak ---
http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/07/truth-behind-our-entitlement-culture/?intcmp=sem_outloud
"These Slides Show Why We Have Such A Huge Budget Deficit And Why Taxes
Need To Go Up," by Rob Wile, Business Insider, April 27, 2013 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-presentation-on-the-federal-budget-2013-4
This is a slide show based on a presentation by a Harvard Economics Professor.
Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/
Bob Jensen's threads on entitlements
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Entitlements.htm
Bob
Jensen's health care messaging updates ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Alan Turing ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on
Mortality ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/17/alan-turing-morcom-letters/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=7845e9fae7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-7845e9fae7-234390133&mc_cid=7845e9fae7&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
Jensen Comment
Alan Turing led the team that cracked the Enigma Machine code of the German
military in WW II. The movie about it called "The Imitation Game" is one of
my all-time favorite films ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
One of the most remarkable take aways from this film is a warning about
using success with care. Turing warned that if the Germans suddenly started
losing too many of their U-boats all of a sudden the German Navy would
discover that their Enigma Code was broken. Instead the British had to
sacrifice some of their ships so as to destroy U-boats at a deceptive pace
rather than suddenly destroy U-boats in every battle. This of course became
a classic case of the study of ethics and morality over winning the war in
the long run versus winning of all battles for only a short time. The
morality issue is knowingly sacrificing some of your own men and women at
sea for the sake of longer-term success.
This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics Harvey Friedman is about to bring
incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine. ---
http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/this-man-is-about-to-blow-up-mathematics
YouTube: Math Mornings at Yale ---
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqHnHG5X2PXBVZsf_rvAwGnUgZ-mGdqCy
Free Online Courses,
Free Online Movies,
Free eBooks,
Free Audio Books,
Free Foreign Language Lessons,
Free MOOCs
Journal of Accountancy: Microsoft Word: How to insert different
headers and footers in Word ---
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2017/feb/how-to-insert-headers-and-footers-in-word.htm#sthash.qwpFd46t.dpuf
20 Years After Dolly the Sheep, What Have We Learned About Cloning?
http://www.livescience.com/57961-dolly-the-sheep-announcement-20-year-anniversary.html
JSTOR Daily: Black History Month: Editor's Picks ---
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks
Patients who are paying a co-pay at the
pharmacy may in fact be paying the entirety of the prescription cost plus an
additional kickback to their Pharmacy Benefits Manager
Keller Rohrback
http://www.scriptsourcing.com/news/patients-paying-co-pay-pharmacy-may-fact-paying-entirety-prescription-cost-plus-additional-kickback-pharmacy-benefits-manager/
Also see
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24/sworn-to-secrecy-drugstores-stay-silent-as-customers-overpay?cmpid=BBD022417_BIZ
A Plan to End 'Unfair' Credit Proposal would quantify how much reward
authors should receive on projects with multiple authors ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/24/proposal-would-limit-credit-researchers-receive-projects-many-co-authors?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=00ea4196f1-DNU20170224&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-00ea4196f1-197565045&mc_cid=00ea4196f1&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
All studies I've seen (including my own research) of the explosion in joint
authorship with two to five or more co-authors is driven by the tendency of
tenure and performance decision makers to give all or nearly all credit for
journal hits irrespective of the number of co-authors. This in turn lead to
gaming the system such as having three professors each do most of the work on
tree projects and sharing their names on all three projects. Other games being
played are mentioned at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTenure.htm
Online Education Costs More, Not Less: Study challenges the
myth that digital instruction costs less -- both for students and for the
colleges producing the courses ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/17/study-challenges-cost-and-price-myths-online-education?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=4fa3c8b756-DNU20170217&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-4fa3c8b756-197565045&mc_cid=4fa3c8b756&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
My accounting background leads me to question the conclusions of this study.
Firstly, there are many onsite common costs that can only arbitrarily be
allocated to onsite courses and onsite students. Think of the brick an mortar
costs classrooms used jointly for onsite humanities students, social science
students, business students, etc. Then there's the allocation of other common
costs such as heating costs, cooling costs, health center costs, campus security
costs, campus insurance costs, central administration costs, parking space
costs, faculty office costs, computing center costs, etc. Secondly, think of the
added common revenues on campus such as "profits" from housing services, meal
services, parking fees, etc.
Unlike in Florida, many colleges and universities charge more for online
tuition because, as claimed by the University of Wisconsin, distance education
became a cash cow due to off-campus demand. Many colleges are now making more
money from their online courses relative to onsite courses. .
Non-credit MOOCs are free to students, and there are thousands of them from
the most prestigious universities in the world. However, there's little cost to
generating these courses since they are usually filmed in live during on-campus
course sessions.
The hitch for MOOCs and other online courses comes in granting transcript
credit. When granting credit a costly process entails enforcing academic
standards and testing student competencies in the subject matter. In addition to
examinations many distance courses require term papers and other written
components similar to what is demanded for onsite course credits. For distance
education students there's an added cost of cheating prevention and detection.
For online courses there's also the added cost of faculty. Many top teachers
onsite refuse to teach online. Those that do agree to teach online often burn
out quickly since, when done right with more intense student-faculty
communications such as instant messaging the online professors burn out more
quickly and refuse continue teaching online.
In some cases courses online and courses onsite are not comparable. How do
you teach a science lab online? How do you teach a speech class? How do you
teach a music or an athletic performance class online?
Some of my my grandchildren were home schooled (which is competency-based
education that is not really online). However, for things like science labs,
music performance, and athletic performance they participated onsite in local
public schools. This might be an option for many distance education students but
is certainly not an option for all distance education students at the higher
education level. Some types of learning just cannot be
done online.
Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Science, Reading, and Mathematics
Literacy in an International Context: First Look at PISA 2015 ---
https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2017048
Pew Research Center: Americans and Cybersecurity ---
http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/01/26/americans-and-cybersecurity
Huffington Post: The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech: 2017 ---
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ac64bfe4b0417c4066c2f1?elqTrackId=e6013aed3e714a68b6f615c1f42a77d6&elq=04bd27bfa8ef476da32226ccf2ad9f5a&elqaid=12695&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5199
Harvard: The Entry-Level Health Care Jobs Men Are (and Are Not) Taking
----
https://hbr.org/2017/02/the-entry-level-health-care-jobs-men-are-and-are-not-taking?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date&spMailingID=16644279&spUserID=MTkyODM0MDg0MAS2&spJobID=962010065&spReportId=OTYyMDEwMDY1S0
Since the 1970s the United States
has shifted away from a manufacturing
economy and toward a service-sector economy. This shift has been difficult
for many workers, but especially for working-class men, who have been hurt
by the loss of manufacturing and production jobs that have traditionally
provided better wages, benefits, and job security than service-sector jobs.
Indeed, the percentage of men working in manufacturing and production jobs —
jobs that used to be “good jobs” for men without a college degree — has
declined by
over 50% since the 1970s, and men’s wages
have dropped over the same time period.
At the same time, there has been a rise
in service-sector occupations, many of
which are female-dominated
health care occupations, such as registered
nurses, home health aides, and personal care aides. However, few men are
entering these female-dominated occupations, despite high demand for the
positions.
One reason is because many of these jobs don’t pay
well. An average
personal care aide or
medical assistant, common entry-level
health care positions, earns around $10–$15 per hour. In contrast, a
middle-age man working in a
manufacturing plant might earn $20–$30 per hour.
Moving into one of these care-work occupations can mean a painful cut in
pay.
In addition, there is stigma around doing “women’s
work,” with
men being reluctant to take jobs that require tasks that are associated with
femaleness, such as hands-on care for an
elderly person or child. In many ways, the election of Donald Trump brought
this reluctance to the forefront; it is far more appealing to be promised
manufacturing jobs than it is to be told you have to do “women’s work.”
A
recent study, conducted by myself, Kim
Price-Glynn, and Carter Rakovski and published in Gender & Society, looks at
how this combination of gender stigma and compensation play out.
Specifically, we looked at entry-level jobs in the health care sector. We
found that there has been no increase in the percentage of men in health
care occupations that require tasks most associated with femaleness, like
bathing, feeding, or toileting. Direct-care jobs that are filled by men are
more likely to be filled by minority men, suggesting that
discrimination in the labor market at large
is pushing them into care work. Men in these jobs also have devalued wages,
or wages that are far lower than their counterparts in male-dominated
occupations.
At the same time, we also found evidence that some
men are carving out spaces for themselves in the service economy. We found
that there are some occupations in the health care sector, relatively new
occupations, where the work is less feminized and less stigmatized, and
where there has been an increase in male workers. These jobs, what we call
entry-level allied health occupations, require some training, though not a
four-year college degree, and include occupations such as surgical
technician, respiratory therapist, radiology technician, and emergency
medical technician. Entry-level allied health occupations typically provide
decent wages ($30,000–$65,000 a year) and
benefits, and men in these occupations tend to be better off in terms of
wages and job security than their peers in blue-collar manufacturing
occupations. According to my calculations using the
Survey of Income and Program Participation,
in 1996 men were 16% of entry-level allied health workers; in 2008 the
percentage was 26%.
Continued in article
Nursing Vs. Teacher: Which Is a Better Career? ---
http://work.chron.com/nursing-vs-teacher-better-career-23266.html
Note the links to "Related Articles"Jensen Comment
For a parent (male or female) teaching is often more compatible for being home
with your children both on work days and during vacation days (such as holidays
and summer weeks) when children are not in school. Also most teachers are either
tenured or on tenure tracks giving significant job protections. Teachers,
however, may have more home work such as grading and class preparation tasks.
Nurses and other health care workers these days generally have more flex time
such as working 12-hour shifts to free up more days at home during each week.
But they may only get 2-3 weeks vacation each year.
Job openings for teachers are quite variable in terms of towns and regions.
For example, at the University of Maine teaching jobs in the schools of the
small town Orono are almost impossible to land. Conversely, when my daughter
looked for teaching high school biology teaching jobs in non-college towns there
were many more openings than in college towns. Job opportunities for medical
workers are probably more highly correlated with size of the towns.
For me being a professor in four universities was an ideal career. I totally
enjoyed the flexibility of choosing when to work, what to study, and how to do
my teaching and research jobs. Performance of a professor is judged in terms of
results in research, scholarship, teaching and service. It's a lot like being
your own boss. However, remember that bosses often work long and stressful
hours, including nights and week ends. For tenured faculty (e.g., lifetime
associate professors) the system can be abused with minimal work hours, but most
higher performing professors work 60+ hours each week and love the work.
For me the biggest advantage of being a professor is that my life was not so
full of endless daily routines like those of physicians, nurses, therapists,
etc. Except during the 15+ hours each week I spent teaching and holding office
hours I pretty much controlled the rest of my work content each and every week.
And I only had to teach about 30 weeks per year making it possible to totally
control 20+ weeks of my work content. By the way when I did teach I only taught
two courses that met in class less than six hours per week. Universities are
very generous when it comes to giving many professors time to study, write, and
do research. But there are great pressures to show evidence of scholarship,
particularly landing publications in refereed books and journals. Many, many
workers hate that kind of pressure and stress of research and writing.
I loved my work so much that I pretty much carried on
with the study, writing, and even research tasks in full retirement. My
scholarship efforts take about 60 or more hours per week on average. I love
contributing to listservs, blogs, and my Website which after considerable
effort, has now moved to a cloud at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/
I miss teaching but not the grading in this era where every student fights tooth
and nail for an A grade. What I love most is trying each day to make myself a
better scholar.
Every licensed driver in the USA., on average, owes about $6,100 in car
payments ---
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-21/the-next-financial-crisis-might-be-in-your-driveway?cmpid=BBD022117_BIZ
Vehicle loans in the USA reached $1.6 trillion. Unpaid student loans hit $1.1
trillion.
Jensen Comment
I always maxed out my investment in a home and held back as much as possible on
investments in reliable cars. I always told my kids that we hope investments in
real estate and education (think student loans) increase in value over time.
Investments in vehicles decline over time even though they've become necessities
of life for most of us. That does not mean people need new cars as often as they
think they need new cars.
Dangling Participles
"How Dangerous Are Danglers?" by Anne Curzan, Chronicle of Higher Education,
February 20, 2017 ---
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/02/20/how-dangerous-are-danglers/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=9c756550abca4583b51458e61256229a&elq=97bc339ea588496390555d4bd907f5b7&elqaid=12645&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5169
I don’t remember many grammar
lessons from junior high school, but for whatever
reason, one sentence from the lesson about dangling
and misplaced modifiers has stuck with me. Here’s
the sentence: “Clinging to the side of the aquarium,
Mary saw a starfish.” Poor Mary! It is exhausting to
have to cling to the side of an aquarium that way.
Now, of course, if we heard
this sentence, we would probably assume it was the
starfish clinging to the side of the aquarium, as
this is the most logical and sensible
interpretation. But if we look closely at the
structure of the sentence, the participial phrase
“clinging to the side of the aquarium” modifies
“Mary” — if we work from the assumption that
participles and other modifiers sit next to what
they modify. So, this sentence could be “fixed” with
alternate versions such as “Clinging to the side of
the aquarium, the starfish stared at Mary,” or “Mary
saw the starfish clinging to the side of the
aquarium.”
I used this example last
week in my “Grammar Boot Camp” course as a way to
introduce dangling participles/modifiers, or
“danglers,” as Bryan Garner calls them. Given our
ability to interpret most danglers in spoken
language without too much effort (if we even notice
them), I think students were expecting me to say
that we don’t need to worry much about them as
writers either. But, in fact, the advice to avoid
danglers in writing is generally good advice.
The point of taking a
critical and questioning approach to prescriptive
usage rules is to determine which ones are worth
following because they are helpful in creating
clearer, less ambiguous, and/or more aesthetically
pleasing prose; which ones are worth following at
least some of the time because they are shibboleths
that may get our writing (and us) judged as not good
enough; and which ones are not worth following
because they are out of date, not widely held or
known, etc. I think the advice about avoiding
danglers falls into the first category. Writing
cannot tolerate as much ambiguity as speech because
there is less context, and we are not there to
clarify if need be; putting modifiers next to the
noun phrase they modify makes things easier and
clearer for readers. And avoids unintended humor.
I asked students to create
some intentionally funny danglers, and here are
three where the modifier is “misplaced” (i.e., the
intended noun phrase is in the sentence but not next
to the modifier):
Oozing slowly across
the dish, Kevin watched the egg yolk.
Gasping for his last
breath, the professor killed the cockroach.
Grooming each other, my
professor and I saw the kittens.
Other examples contained
modifiers that were “dangling” in the sense that
they referred to the speaker/writer, who does not
appear as a noun phrase in the sentence. Consider:
Swimming through the
water, the goggles fogged up.
Rushing to submit my
homework on time, my computer crashed.
Another example wasn’t
especially funny (the students pointed out that
being funny on demand is a big ask, which is a
completely fair point!), but it raises a key
question about when a dangler stops dangling:
Reviewing the final
essay, it became apparent students had not
studied.
Given the existential it,
we as readers know that the participial phrase
“reviewing the final essay” is modifying something
else: probably the speaker/writer or some understood
group of people who are reviewing the students’
final essays. These danglers tend to feel more OK
because they come closer to the set of “acceptable
danglers,” sometimes called “disguised
conjunctions.”
With participles such as
considering, assuming, given,
regarding, owing (to), speaking (of),
and a few others, editors tend to allow the
participial phrase to function adverbially,
modifying the entire sentence. For example:
Considering the danger,
she is lucky to have gotten out alive.
Even taking all these
factors into account, a team cannot win without
strong defense.
H.W. Fowler raises the
interesting question of when this kind of participle
becomes acceptable as a “disguised
conjunction/preposition.” How would we know? He uses
the example of referring to. He compares
these two openings to a sentence:
Referring to your
letter, you do not state …
Referring to your
letter, I find that you do not state …
To start to answer that
question, I went to the academic section of the
Corpus of Contemporary American English
and found almost all instances
of sentence-initial “referring to … ” have the
relevant noun right after the phrase (e.g.,
“Referring to X, the author argues … ”). But there
are certainly exceptions, such as: “Referring to
Figure 2, the presence of the safety provisions
shifts the demand curve up.” So usage suggests that
editors, at least, continue to see referring to
as a participial modifier, requiring writers to
juxtapose a noun phrase for it to modify. But it is
certainly not confusing to write “Referring to
Figure 2, the data … ” Nor is it ungrammatical.
Continued in article
Don't Blame State Disinvestment Alone: Tuition rose faster than
state appropriations fell, and federal aid helped make that possible, study
asserts ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/20/study-tuition-increases-are-not-entirely-explained-state-disinvestment?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ea1e107457-DNU20170220&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ea1e107457-197565045&mc_cid=ea1e107457&mc_eid=1e78f7c952
Jensen Comment
And much of that tuition increase went toward egalitarian financial aid in Robin
Hood efforts to give more to the poor.
"How to Beat the High Cost of Learning: Financial aid has
caused tuitions to skyrocket. If we can’t abolish it, we can at least simplify it,"
by Richard Vedder, The Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2017 ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-learning-1487204060?mod=djemMER
How come a
college degree is the one thing that never gets any cheaper? The financial
burden of virtually all goods and services has lightened over recent
generations, with this one big exception. Since about 1980, the price tag of
attending university has soared faster than overall inflation and the growth
of family incomes. Recent “free tuition” proposals would be nothing more
than extremely expensive Band-Aids. The way to address rising college costs
is to rethink the entire government student-loan system.
In a
1987
op-ed,
Bill Bennett, President Reagan’s education secretary, hypothesized that
tuition was rising partly because of the explosive growth of federal
financial assistance. He observed that as it became easier for students to
borrow money or get grants from the government, demand for college grew.
This led schools throughout the country to raise fees aggressively.
From 1840
through 1978—a period when federal aid was nonexistent or very
modest—inflation-adjusted tuition rose about 1% a year, according to my
analysis of the available data. The Higher Education Act of 1965 created
small loan and grant programs, which were enormously expanded in legislation
signed by President Carter in 1978. Since then, federal data show, college
tuition has been rising roughly 3% a year. If tuition after 1978 had grown
only as fast as it did in the preceding four decades, going to college today
would cost half what it does.
Instead, aid programs were expanded even more. They are now 10 times as
large as they were in 1970, adjusting for inflation. Some $158 billion is
spent annually on student aid, and more than 40 million Americans have
student loans, according to the
College Board.
Total student debt has reached
$1.3 trillion, and despite extremely liberal repayment terms, loan
delinquencies are substantial. Newly corrected
data
from the Education Department show that a majority of borrowers at over
1,000 institutions repaid nothing in the three years after finishing school.
A
January report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says that
the number of student debtors older than 60 has quadrupled in a decade.
New studies
have also lent more credibility to Mr. Bennett’s 30-year-old insight.
Researchers at the New York Federal Reserve suggested in 2015 that a common
result is a tuition increase of about 60 cents for every increased dollar of
student aid. A paper last year by Grey Gordon and Aaron Hedlund for the
National Bureau of Economic Research also strongly supports Mr. Bennett’s
theory.
The system of
student aid is incredibly complex, with over a dozen federal loan, grant,
work-study and tuition-tax-credit programs. The Free Application for Federal
Student Aid, known by the acronym Fafsa, is unnecessarily complex and deters
some low-income students from applying for assistance. The proportion of
recent college graduates from the bottom quartile of the income distribution
has fallen significantly since 1970, to 10% from over 12%, data from the
Pell Institute suggest. On balance, federal assistance has not helped poor
Americans gain access to college.
These
programs also have no educational performance standards, meaning they don’t
give students an incentive to work hard. As college enrollments continue to
grow, they have aggravated a large underemployment problem. More university
grads are taking unskilled jobs as baristas or Uber drivers.
Perhaps the
federal government should get out of the student aid business. Washington
doesn’t have the financial discipline to pay its own bills fully. Why should
it borrow money to send moderately affluent Americans to school? Yet
abolishing federal aid would impose severe short-term hardships, and it is
politically infeasible.
What would a
more realistic plan look like? First, simplify. Everything about the federal
aid system is too complex, starting with the Fafsa. There should be only two
programs: a grant program to replace the Pell Grant and a federal loan
program to replace Plus loans, tuition tax credits, work study and the
litany of other schemes
Another
change: Give educational vouchers directly to students. That would empower
the recipients to weigh costs more closely and reduce colleges’ incentive to
increase spending. Grants and federal student loans should be given only to
those with incomes below 150% of the poverty level. Aid should come with
modest academic expectations, like maintaining a 2.0 grade-point average;
and when a student’s prospect of success becomes remote, it should be cut
off. A time limit of five years of government assistance might be helpful.
Should all graduate or professional education be subsidized? The feds don’t
necessarily need to help people attending expensive M.B.A. programs whose
graduates earn large starting salaries.
Schools
also need to have some skin in the game. Many colleges now knowingly accept
marginal applicants who ultimately drop out and fail to repay their loans.
The schools collect tuition, but the taxpayers get burdened with delinquent
debt. Colleges should be required to share some of that burden. For example,
schools with abnormally high loan delinquencies should have to pay a tuition
“tax” to the government to help cover costs. This could raise graduation
rates and shrink bloated enrollments.
Continued in article
Even the SAT Has Become Political ---
https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-the-sat-has-become-political-1487290412?mod=djemMER
Jensen Comment
The SAT has been political for decades. One of my colleagues at Trinity
University back in the 1980s was hired to make exam questions politically
correct. Portions of world and American history are no longer allowed as content
of SAT college admission tests. Big Brother has been on the academic scene well
before the 21st Century.
The Economist Magazine: Why taxing
robots is not a good idea --- Bill Gates’s proposal is revealing about the
challenge automation poses
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21717374-bill-gatess-proposal-revealing-about-challenge-automation-poses-why-taxing?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170223n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/8947035/n
Jensen Comment
When robots replace workers there are a number of tax impacts. Firstly, there's
less payroll tax going to Medicare and Social Security trust funds as well as
possible other losses in taxes for things like unemployment insurance. Secondly,
there's less local, state, and federal income tax paid. Thirdly, to the extent
that commuting declines there's less fuel tax to pay for roads and bridges.
Somewhere somehow governments must make up for lost tax revenue.
IRS Audit Rate Of Individuals (0.7%),
Businesses (0.5%) Falls To 10+ Year Lows Due To Budget Cuts ---
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/02/irs-audit-rate-of-individuals-07-businesses-05-fell-to-10-year-lows-due-to-budget-cuts-.html
Jensen Comment
Much depends upon how the term "audit" is defined. I don't think this low "audit
rate" includes those computer notices to taxpayers that they made computation
errors and partial audits that are not audits of a full return. Taxpayers are
not advised to cheat by thinking the IRS won't seek back taxes and penalties.
The IRS has many ways of investigating tax returns that are fall short of being
full audits.
In my personal opinion the IRS appropriations would have been somewhat higher
if Lois Lerner had not refused to testify under oath that the White House under
Obama did not abuse IRS power to reduce GOP campaign funding. But there's no way
of proving "what might have been" if Lerner testified to what really happened.
Bib Jensen's tax helpers are at
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#010304Taxation
From the Scout Report on February
Haiku Learning ---
http://www.haikulearning.com
Created by the educational software company
PowerSchool, Haiku Learning is a tool that enables educators to build
customized webpages for their classrooms. With Haiku Learning, teachers can
create assignments, student calendars, and grade books. In addition,
teachers may embed content from around the internet (such as YouTube videos,
news articles, Google Maps, or podcast) into their classroom website,
enabling them to share educational resources with ease. Haiku Learning can
also be used to facilitate collaborative learning, as the WikiProjects
feature allows group members to easily communicate with one another and
share materials. Teachers can download Haiku Learning for five classrooms
for free; schools and districts can also purchase unlimited access for an
annual cost.
Shift ---
https://tryshift.com
These days, many email users have more than one
Gmail account. This can make things a bit tricky when users try to take
advantage of Google's productivity and document sharing features, such as
Google Drive and Google Calendar. Shift is a desktop application that
enables users to quickly and easily switch between Gmail accounts. For
example, users can check the Google Calendar on their personal Gmail account
while using Google Docs on their professional email account. Shift also
provides users with desktop notifications so they can stay up-to-date about
new messages, events, or shared materials on both of their accounts.
Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux computers, Shift offers a free Basic
account for users to toggle between two Gmail/Inbox/Outlook accounts. Users
interested in simultaneously using three or more email accounts have the
option of purchasing Shift Pro.
A Long-Forgotten Essay from Winston
Churchill Asks, "Are We Alone in
the Universe?"
Winston Churchill Wrote of Alien Life in Lost Essay
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/europe/winston-churchill-aliens.html
"Are We Alone in the Universe?" Winston Churchill's Lost Extraterrestrial
Essay Says No
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/winston-churchill-question-alien-life
Winston Churchill's essay on alien life found
http://www.nature.com/news/winston-churchill-s-essay-on-alien-life-found-1.21467
Churchill's scientific papers reveal an even greater politician than we
thought
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/16/winston-churchill-science-alien-nuclear
National Churchill Museum
https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org
Science Museum: Churchill's Scientists
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/churchills-scientists
From the Scout Report on February ,
NYPL: Stereogranimator ---
http://stereo.nypl.org
Stereoscopy was once a popular way to create the
illusion of a three-dimensional image. Especially prevalent in the
nineteenth century, stereoscopy involves viewing two photographs
simultaneously through a device called a stereoscope. The New York Public
Library (NYPL) has recently brought Stereoscopy into the twenty-first
century with the Stereogranimator. This tool allows users to create their
own Stereographs - in the form of a Graphic Interchange Format (GIF).
Visitors are invited to use any stereographic image from the NYPL's Digital
Collections, or from a number of other participating archives, including the
Boston Public Library, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. National
Archives. Alternatively, visitors may use any two photographs from their own
Flickr account in order to generate an animated stereogram.
Countdown App ---
https://www.timeanddate.com/ios/countdown
Whether you have an event you are excitedly waiting
for or a deadline you want to be sure to remember, the Countdown App may be
for you. Created by Time and Date, a Norwegian company that produces
numerous calendar related tools and phone applications, Countdown is a
relatively straightforward tool. Users simply enter an event along with a
date and time, and Countdown will reveal the days, minutes, and seconds
until that event. Visitors can select a thematic background to accompany
their event by either choosing one of the pre-made themes, such as Birthday,
Vacation, and Tax Day, or by uploading a custom picture. Countdown is
available for both iOS devices and Android devices. [
Solar System Discovered with 7
Earth-Size Planets with the Potential
for Life
7 Earth-Size Planets Orbit Dwarf Star, NASA and European Astronomers Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/science/trappist-1-exoplanets-nasa.html
Discover of 7 Earth-Size Exoplanets a "Giant Leap Forward" for Alien-Life
Hunt
http://www.space.com/35803-trappist-1-planets-alien-life.html
Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star
TRAPPIST-1
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7642/full/nature21360.html
Largest batch of Earth-size, habitable zone planets
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/trappist1
Next exoplanet or solar system discovery could be made accidentally by
gamers, not Nasa
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/exoplanet-discovery-nasa-gamers-eve-online-project-latest-solar-system-trappist-1-a7595391.html
Open Exoplanet Catalogue
http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com
Free Online Tutorials, Videos, Course Materials, and
Learning Centers
Education Tutorials
Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Science, Reading, and Mathematics
Literacy in an International Context: First Look at PISA 2015 ---
https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2017048
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Sierra Club: The John Muir Exhibit: Educational Resources ---
http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/educational_resources
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
BrainConnection ---
http://brainconnection.brainhq.com
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
Vectors: Motion and Forces in Two Dimensions ---
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/vectors
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science,
engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Corning Museum of Glass ---
http://www.cmog.org
LearnChemE---
http://www.learncheme.com
Larry Ferlazzo's Website of the Day: the Best Hans Rosling Videos (Scuence)
---
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/11/04/the-best-hans-rosling-videos
Famous Trees of Texas ---
http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/websites/FamousTreesOfTexas
BrainConnection ---
http://brainconnection.brainhq.com
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
Larry Ferlazzo's Website of the Day: the Best Hans Rosling Videos (Scuence)
---
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/11/04/the-best-hans-rosling-videos
Immigration Syllabus ---
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/immigrationsyllabus
JSTOR Daily: Black History Month: Editor's Picks ---
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks
The Gendlin Online Library (philosophy and psychology) ---
http://www.focusing.org/gendlin/gol_intro.asp
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Law
Math Tutorials
This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics Harvey Friedman is about to bring
incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine. ---
http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/this-man-is-about-to-blow-up-mathematics
YouTube: Math Mornings at Yale ---
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqHnHG5X2PXBVZsf_rvAwGnUgZ-mGdqCy
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics and Statistics
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
The Super-Enlightenment (philosophy) ---
http://collections.stanford.edu/supere
The Gendlin Online Library (philosophy and psychology) ---
http://www.focusing.org/gendlin/gol_intro.asp
Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: An Animated Introduction to the
Most Insightful Study of American Democracy ---
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/an-animated-introduction-to-tocqueville.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
1917. Free History (of Russia) ---
https://project1917.com
Shakespeare and the Players ---
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/shakespeare
Treasures of the McDonald Collection (rare books and book covers) ---
http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/mcdonald
Gods and Scholars (history of religion from Cornell University) ---
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/godsandscholars/exhibition/introduction
Corning Museum of Glass ---
http://www.cmog.org
History of the Internet ---
http://fios.verizon.com/history-of-the-internet/
JSTOR Daily: Black History Month: Editor's Picks ---
https://daily.jstor.org/black-history-month-editors-picks
Immigration Syllabus ---
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/immigrationsyllabus
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection ---
https://www.loc.gov/collections/feinberg-whitman/about-this-collection
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection ---
https://www.loc.gov/collections/feinberg-whitman/about-this-collection
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to History
Also see
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Connections ---
http://www.metmuseum.org/connections
Melville Society ---
http://melvillesociety.org
Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos
of Lincoln, Nebraska ---
http://gildedage.unl.edu
America's Public Bible ---
http://americaspublicbible.org
Sierra Club: The John Muir Exhibit: Educational Resources ---
http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/educational_resources
Famous Trees of Texas ---
http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu/websites/FamousTreesOfTexas
Colorado Agriculture and Rural Life ---
http://lib.colostate.edu/agrural
Fort Collins History Connection ---
http://history.poudrelibraries.org/
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Gateway to Chinese (languages) ---
http://sites.la.utexas.edu/chinese
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Mandoberlin: Lesson Hub ---
http://www.mandoberlin.com/lesson-hub.php
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Music
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
CDC Blogs ---
http://blogs.cdc.gov/
Shots: NPR Health News ---
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots
Updates from WebMD ---
http://www.webmd.com/
February 17, 2017
February 18, 2017
February 21, 2017
February 22, 2017
February 23, 2017
February 24, 2017
February 25, 2017
February 27, 2017
MIT: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017 ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2017/
Reversing Paralysis
Driverless Trucks
Paying with Your Face (Face Detection Technology)
Practical Quantum Computing
The 360-Degree Selfie
Hot Solar Cells
Gene Therapy
The Cell Atlas
Botnets of Things (Connectivity to Gadgets)
Reinforcement Learning
MIT: Solving the Autism Puzzle ---
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/533501/solving-the-autism-puzzle/?mc_cid=5e3d95da62&mc_eid=fe7f400ea3
The drive to genetically engineer children is
motivated by a desire to ensure that they’re born fit and healthy.
Genetics now enables us to understand the origins
of conditions such as autism—which, in theory, provides a starting point for
preventing them
Humor for February 2017 ---
http://faculty.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Humor/Set07/Set07.htm
Humor January
2017 ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book17q1.htm#Humor0117.htm
Humor December 2016 ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1216.htm
Humor November 2016 ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1116.htm
Humor October 2016 ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q4.htm#Humor1016.htm
Humor September 2016 ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0916.htm
Humor
August 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor083116.htm
Humor
July 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q3.htm#Humor0716.htm
Humor
June 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor063016.htm
Humor
May 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor053116.htm
Humor
April 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q2.htm#Humor043016.htm
Humor
March 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor033116.htm
Humor February 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor022916.htm
Humor January 2016
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/book16q1.htm#Humor013116.htm
Tidbits Archives ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in
2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
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Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
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With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
(TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
- With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors
Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
- With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of
Accountancy Ignores TAR
- With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research
into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at
http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for
free) go to http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
AECM is an email Listserv list which
provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software
which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the
college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and
peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets,
multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base
programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for
accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting
education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial
accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing,
doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics)
research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
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CPAS-L
(Practitioners)
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/ (Closed
Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of
all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an
unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments,
ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed.
Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L
or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for
a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional
accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or
education. Others will be denied access. |
Yahoo (Practitioners)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA.
This can be anything from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ
initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA. |
AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1
This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as
accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed
assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and
taxation. |
Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag
[RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 ---
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog
Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB
and the International Accounting
Standards Board on this financial
reporting blog from Financial Executives
International. The site, updated daily,
compiles regulatory news, rulings and
statements, comment letters on
standards, and hot topics from the Web’s
largest business and accounting
publications and organizations. Look for
continuing coverage of SOX requirements,
fair value reporting and the Alternative
Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such
as the subprime mortgage crisis,
international convergence, and rules for
tax return preparers. |
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as
well as a practicing CPA)
I found another listserve
that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.
There are several highly
capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and
the answers are often in depth.
Scott
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim
Counts
Yes you may mention info on
your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any
CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is
possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not
have access to the files and other items posted.
Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in
top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and
in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I
will get the request to join.
Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage
people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then
via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in
your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the
inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.
We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in
California.... ]
Please encourage your members
to join our listserve.
If any questions let me know.
Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) ---
http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some
Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice
timeline of accounting history ---
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All
my online pictures ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://faculty.Trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
rjensen@trinity.edu